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What was the immigration station in the New York harbor?
Ellis Island
What was the immigration station in San Francisco Bay?
Angel Bay
What were the 4 things they were screening for?
-disease
-mental illness
-criminals
-political radicals
Which nationality faced strict immigration laws which limited entrance to certain skilled workers?
Chinese
Immigrants were often urged by employers, public institutions, and sometimes even family members to do what?
join the American mainstream
Most immigrants shared a common work experience, they did the country's what?
dirty work
Did immigrant workers play an important role in operating factories that contributed to a strong U.S. economy?
Yes
Many native-born Americans saw immigration as a what?
threat
Many Americans saw the newcomers as too different to do what?
fit into American society
What social problems were blamed on the immigrants?
crime, poverty, violence, and spreading radical political ideas
What caused people in California to be less tolerant of Chinese workers in 1873?
Unemployment following the Panic of 1873
What did they do to some Chinese in California?
Mobs attacked them, killing some and burning the property of others
What did the Chinese Exclusion Act do?
It denied citizenship to people born in China and prohibited the immigration of Chinese laborers
What sought to impose a literacy test on all immigrants?
Immigration Restriction League
Was Congress in favor of this law?
Yes
Who vetoed the law?
President Grover Cleveland
Immigrants who came to the U.S. before the 1880s
old immigrants
Immigrants who came to the U.S. between the 1880s and the 1910s
new immigrants
Poor accommodations in a ship's lower levels
steerage
Organizations that helped immigrants in cases of sickness, unemployment, and death
benevolent societies